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The January issue of Wired includes a long read on Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker:
Bogost threw together a bare-bones Facebook game in three days. The rules were simple to the point of absurdity: There was a picture of a cow, which players were allowed to click once every six hours. Each time they did, they received one point, called a click. Players could invite as many as eight friends to join their "pasture"; whenever anyone within the pasture clicked their cow, they all received a click. A leaderboard tracked the game's most prodigious clickers. Players could purchase in-game currency, called mooney, which they could use to buy more cows or circumvent the time restriction. In true FarmVille fashion, whenever a player clicked a cow, an announcement—"I'm clicking a cow"—appeared on their Facebook newsfeed.
And that was pretty much it. That's not a nutshell description of the game; that's literally all there was to it. As a play experience, it was nothing more than a collection of cheap ruses, blatantly designed to get players to keep coming back, exploit their friends, and part with their money. "I didn't set out to make it fun," Bogost says. "Players were supposed to recognize that clicking a cow is a ridiculous thing to want to do."
Bogost launched Cow Clicker during the NYU event in July 2010. Within weeks, it had achieved cult status among indie-game fans and social-game critics. Every "I'm clicking a cow" newsfeed update served as a badge of ironic protest. Players gleefully clicked cows to send a message to their FarmVille-loving friends or to identify themselves as members of the anti-Zynga underground. The game began attracting press on sites like TechCrunch and Slashdot.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a new law that lets Illinois residents use cellphones to prove they have auto insurance.
The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reports Quinn signed the legislation Friday. More than a dozen other states also let motorists use programs on their smartphones instead of paper cards provided by auto insurance companies.
The new law takes effect immediately. Insurance companies are already offering the service. For example, Bloomington-based State Farm Insurance has a Pocket Agent app, which has been used an estimated 750,000 times.
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3-D printing gives businesses a low-cost option for odd jobs
What does a business do if the vintage aircraft part a customer needs hasn't been made in decades? For a solution, Airflow Systems of Capistrano Beach, Calif., turned to Rapid Tech at University of California-Irvine. Through the use of Rapid Tech's cutting-edge 3-D manufacturing technology, the aircraft parts manufacturer got what it needed in exchange for the cost of the materials required to do the work.
"I believe that small entrepreneurial businesses like ours will be the backbone of manufacturing innovation in the U.S.," said Bill Genevro, president of Airflow Systems. "But we can only do this with the help of entities like Rapid Tech."
Rapid Tech is in the UC-Irvine Engineering building and has been funded by Saddleback College and grants from the National Science Foundation. The nonprofit's primary function is teaching students advanced manufacturing techniques, but it also provides low-cost help for businesses.
"We do hundreds of projects each year, dozens of outreach and training events," said Ben Dolan, director of design and engineering research projects at Rapid Tech.
Rapid Tech's specialty is a form of modeling in which a printer uses digital input from a computer to create three-dimensional solid objects, thin layer by thin layer. The printer head extrudes a small amount of plastic or other material, making several passes before the form begins to take a recognizable shape.
The process enables users to quickly design and refine prototypes without resorting to the more costly and time-consuming process of having a metal part forged and repeating that procedure to correct imperfections.
Each of the projects uses one of the more than 20 3-D digital printers and other equipment at Rapid Tech. Because they have become increasingly refined and sophisticated, these so-called desktop factories are being referred to as the third manufacturing revolution.
"After the digital revolution, this type of engineering work was considered lowbrow," said UC-Irvine mechanical engineering professor Marc Madou. "Now we're helping to create the supply chain of the future."
But the process demands considerable computing power, so much so that when Dolan needed new desktops, the only kind that came ready to use, without extensive upgrades, were some of the world's fastest boutique game computers, such as those made by Alienware. The best 3-D printers cost $50,000 to $1 million.
This is what puts the technology out of reach of many small- to medium-sized businesses and even some of the larger and more established ones.
Genevro's Airflow Systems is a small firm that has been designing, building and selling FAA-certified aircraft equipment, such as engine intercoolers, since 1987. Genevro says he has used Rapid Tech's help to save weeks and sometimes months of production time.
One of the more esoteric projects involved re-creating parts for a 1938 Japanese Zero fighter plane, using only the pitted, corroded and incomplete original parts. This was for a restoration project for the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Ore.
With Rapid Tech's help, Genevro was able to scan each part, correct the defects, and then reproduce a 3-D representation of parts that hadn't been manufactured in nearly 70 years. The technology is just as useful in designing new and improved parts for machines currently in production.
For the well-known watersports equipment brand Hobie Designs Inc. in San Juan Capistrano, Rapid Tech helped develop a carbon fiber paddle based on a partial design that the lab was able to extend across the entire item.
"The 3-D scanning, computer-assisted design and prototyping process helped us deliver this new concept as fast as we could conceive it," said Hobie Designs President Jeff Alter, "and now customers get to reap the rewards."
Tom Hester, who runs Hester Studios in North Hollywood, Calif., has a film, video and animation character design resume that includes work on the "Shrek" movies, "Harry and the Hendersons" and the Michael Jackson video "Thriller."
He has worked with Rapid Tech to create digital sculptures and stays in regular contact with its experts, including Rapid Tech's director, Ed Tackett. Hester says he does that to keep abreast of the latest techniques in a highly competitive field.
"We talk pretty frequently, every three or four months. I have gone to them on projects eight times or more," Hester said. "I do it to have a fighting chance of keeping up with competitors. Staying in touch helps me keep up with what is going on."
The Obama administration has proposed the development of as many as 15 regional hubs or Institutes of Manufacturing Innovation. Part of their function would be to help U.S. manufacturers use advanced manufacturing techniques that would give them a competitive edge.
Rapid Tech officials say they are already doing that, but they caution that they don't take on just any project that a business might be interested in developing.
"We decide on a case-by-case basis," Tackett said. "If someone wants us to make a box, probably not. We don't make boxes. We ask ourselves, 'Is there intellectual merit to the project? Will it help train students? Will it help other companies?' That's what we are looking for."
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Real Salt Lake 1, Chicago Fire 1 | MLS Match Recap
SANDY, Utah — Real Salt Lake welcomed back Alvaro Saborio in grand fashion, but the Chicago Fire's Quincy Amarikwa demanded to share the spotlight as the two teams played to a 1-1 draw Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium.
After missing the team's previous five games with a strained quad muscle, Real Salt Lake's all-time leading scorer re-announced himself with a bang, scoring in the 78th minute to give RSL a short-lived lead. Sebastian Velasquez played a nifty ball toward the corner to midfielder Ned Grabavoy, whose cross was headed home by Saborio.
But only six minutes later Amariwka answered after getting onto the end of an Austin Berry flick to volley home.
OPTA Chalkboard: RSL dominate, but leave the door open
It was a point stolen for the Fire, who were on the back foot most of the night and were in the game largely thanks to the heroics of goalkeeper Sean Johnson, who finished the first half with four saves – several of the spectacular variety.
With Johnson and Nick Rimando in net – two US national team goalkeepers – goals were always going to be at a premium. So it was extra painful for Robbie Findley when he blew a golden chance in the 50th minute. Joao Plata put a ball to the middle from the left wing with Findley alone at the top of the six-yard box, but he put his header just wide.
Johnson did well to parry away a 25-yard, left-foot blast from Chris Wingert in the 57th minute, and Tony Beltran wanted to get in on the action but was stoned by Johnson from 35 yards.
As the chances continued to pile up, and the clock kept ticking, Chicago began pulling more players behind the ball. But with the Fire bunkering a bit more, it also made RSL press more, which began to open space in the middle and open things up for a counter-attack.
RSL nearly went ahead in the 76th minute when a Javier Morales free kick from 22 yards beat the wall, but Johnson turned it into perhaps his most eye-popping save of the night, pushing it off the underside of the crossbar and out.
Two minutes later Saborio would finally break through, giving Amarikwa the chance to answer. Off a long throw from Jalil Anibaba, Berry was able to get a head to it and flick it into the path of Amarikwa, who volleyed it home acrobatically.
RSL (6-5-3, 21 points) host the Atlanta Silverbacks in a US Open Cup match on Tuesday, and the Fire (2-7-2, 8 points) travel to Charlotte to face the Eagles in their Open Cup game on Wednesday.
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|Sean Johnson
|Time capsule performance for the youngster, who straight up thieved a point for his team. No 'keeper in the league is as spectacular
|Ned Grabavoy
|Has very quietly been RSL's best - and definitely their most consistent - player this season. Both controls tempo and finds the last pass
|Alvaro Saborio
|Welcome back! Saborio's header is what will rightly be highlighted, but his hold-up play and vision are so underrated. He changes the game


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Emma Watson Designs Dinner Plate for Charity Auction
Jan 20, 2009
Actress Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) has designed a dinner plate to be part of a special charity auction. Along with celebrities such as Hugh Dancy, Andy Serkis and Claire Danes, Emma created designer dinner plates that will be sold at auction to aid the Blue Peter Mission Nutrition campaign. Bidding will begin at t £10 per plate, with the auction to start on Ebay Wednesday January 28 and run for ten days. A press release indicates the funds raised will help "Blue Peter's Mission Nutrition Appeal reach
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Located in the heart of pittsburgh, the phipps Conservatory is home to the first leedcertified building in a public garden and is broadening its sustainable reach to every corner of its campus.
In 1995, the conservatory embarked on a three-phase build-out plan to add a state-ofthe-art welcome center, production greenhouses, a tropical rainforest display, and its Center for sustainable landscapes.
The new Center for Sustainable Landscapes is one of the world's first certified living buildings, complete with green roof, and will generate all of its own energy while capturing and treating all onsite water. Aquascape Inc. in St. Charles, Illinois, was called on to lend their stormwater management expertise and construct a viable and sustainable rainwater harvesting solution.
Phipps realized that while there are numerous green building experts available, many were not focused on the landscape. They wanted to provide a living classroom and research areas for focused work on sustainable landscapes.
When Phipps set out to design and build the Center for Sustainable Landscapes, their bold vision for the design team included achievement of the highest LEED certification level. Phipps also accepted the Living Building Challenge, which requires an even deeper level of sustainability.
Sustainable Sites certification was the final item on their checklist. The Center is designed to be a 'net zero building,' which means that it produces more electricity than it uses. All stormwater will be captured, filtered and reused, and all materials used in the project must pass stringent requirements. For example, PVC was not allowed in any capacity.
For the past three years, the Aquascape team worked with Phipps on the stormwater management aspects of the project. The project site sits on a terrace in the middle of a steep hill looking up at the existing conservatory campus. The steep topography coupled with a rather small site posed a significant challenge to the design team charged with handling all onsite stormwater.
Water is collected from the upper campus and off the roofs of the Center for Sustainable Landscapes and another nearby building. Collected rainwater is then directed to a stormwater lagoon, designed to fluctuate with storm events and also serve as a decorative element next to the Center.
The wetland filtration system, patented by Aquascape, cleans and polishes the stormwater through stone beds by using a multi-staged filtration approach of suspended solid removal, biological filtration, and phytoremediation using native wetland plantings. The beneficial bacteria colonizing on the stone, along with the aquatic plants, strips the water of nutrients and toxins from the environment.
Skimmers at each end of the lagoon draw water in while skimming the surface to keep debris out of the pond. The skimmer on the west side of the lagoon sends part of the water to the wetland filter and a small amount of water to a shallow reflective pool near the entrance to the Center.
The skimmer on the east side pushes water to the other half of the wetland area and also to a formal waterfall spillway. The waterfall aerates the water and disguises the pipe that carries stormwater to the lagoon. A laminar-style fountain provides visual interest for visitors.
When the lagoon overflows, water is channeled through a large concrete weir to a 65,000-gallon storage system. The system lies beneath a parking drive and contains rain tanks and a liner. Directly adjacent to that is a 23,000-gallon infiltration tank. This system is wrapped in a geotextile fabric and collects runoff from the parking area through a rain garden.
Installation for the stormwater management system was completed in two phases. In October 2011, the 65,000-gallon storage system was installed, along with the 23,000-gallon subsurface reservoir to handle overflow. The lagoon was added in April of 2012.
Both projects were constructed under the direction of Ed Beaulieu, director of contractor development and field research, and Fred Pape, specialty projects manager, both with Aquascape. Also helping out were local certified Aquascape contractors: Greg Fisher of Fisher's Landscaping, Phil Rook of Professional Lawn and Landscape, and Kevin Soergel of Soergel's Landscaping.
The two combined systems have the ability to capture more than 88,000 gallons of stormwater. The rain tanks were installed and are capable of handling any traffic load, such as buses, and fire or delivery trucks. These tank systems were installed with an average of eight people, working over a five-day period. An engineered piping system that plugs into the city's storm system can handle any overflow that might occur on rare occasion.
The conservatory's production greenhouse uses almost 20,000 gallons of water per day to irrigate the vast plant collection. To accommodate the demand, a 20,000-gallon storage system was installed on the upper campus next to the greenhouse. This tank is slowly fed from the larger tank below and is then pumped quickly into the greenhouse each morning for irrigation purposes. This system allows Phipps to drastically reduce its dependence on municipal water.
An overarching goal of the Phipps Conservatory is to connect people with nature. Perched on one of Pittsburgh's many hillsides, Phipps showcases thousands of different plant species from around the world. Visitors can wander through a variety of gardens, from desert landscapes to Japanese bonsai, to a tropical rainforest. The ornate Victorian architecture and original glass houses add to the rich history and beauty of the entire experience.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Fred Pape is specialty projects manager, and Ed Beaulieu, director of contractor development and field research, both with Aquascape Inc.


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It's 5 a.m. and I'm walking through the gathering crowd, stepping to the beat of reggae music blasting from speakers that are out of sight. It's already over 20 C, so warming up my muscles before the race is a fairly easy task.
More than 1,400 people from 36 countries have registered for the Reggae Marathon and, in 15 minutes, will begin a 10 km, 21 km or 42 km run past the resorts that dot Negril and its powdered-sugar Seven Mile Beach.
The energy is electric and despite the dark sky and early hour, people are friendly and forthcoming.
I see a group of four, a woman and three men, with temporary tattoos on their cheeks — a Jamaican flag on one, a Canadian flag on the other — and make my way toward them. They're from Winnipeg and decided that since they were already in Negril for a wedding, they'd do the half marathon together.
The woman, Denalda, produces another fake Canadian tattoo from her pocket and with a squirt of water from the bottle anchored to her hip, presses the tattoo onto my bare shoulder.
I spot a Minnesota man I met the night before at the aptly named World's Best Pasta Party (with delicious jerk chicken alfredo, beef lasagna, tuna spaghetti, vegetarian penne and, of course, Red Stripe beer) and head over to wish him a good run.
Burt is 87 years old. This is his 320th marathon and 12th Reggae Marathon.
I say hello to Michelle from Toronto, who was on my flight to Jamaica two days earlier. She's doing the half marathon this year after doing the full marathon last year.
Finally I take my place between Pete from Calgary, an avid marathoner in Jamaica for the first time to do the half, and Tricia from Kansas City, who's done the Reggae Marathon every year since it began in 2001.
After running one full and nine half marathons, she elected to do the 10 km distance the past two years, telling me it felt like more of a vacation that way.
The music stops and race director Alfred Francis says a few words before the start signal sounds. The music returns, Bob Marley's Jammin' filling the air, and everyone sings along as we stream into the darkness, past a line of volunteers lighting our way with torches.
Jamaica is known for its short distance runners, most notably Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt (who coicindentally ran the Reggae Marathon in 2001 as part of his school's relay team), but Kingston's Jamdammers Running Club started the marathon event to develop mid- and long-distance running in Jamaica, and to promote a healthy lifestyle through the sport.
The double looped course, which runs along Norman Manley Boulevard and is closed to traffic between 4 a.m. and 12 p.m. on race day, begins and ends at Long Bay Beach Park, stretching south to the town of Negril and north towards Salt Creek, with views of the turquoise Caribbean Sea.
There's an impressive turnout of spectators and some have arrived by the side of the road still in their pyjamas.
Every mile is marked with a hydration and aid station, manned by a group of incredible volunteers, many of them bright-eyed youngsters.
Every mile reggae music pumps from a car stereo or even a live band, so as you pass the music and it begins to grow faint, you hear more in the distance, drawing you forward.
I haven't run this far in years — and I'm only doing the 10 km — but I feel great, instantly energized as I pass the Silver Bird Steel Orchestra just beyond the 8-km mark.
I pick up my pace and race towards the finish line, crossing the final timing mat beaming ear to ear. Immediately a finishing medal is placed around my neck and then I stand in line for coconut water, straight from a fresh coconut hacked open with a machete.
I need both arms to finish my recovery drink, then I have a good stretch, pick up a Red Stripe, and chat with Patrick, a race director from Magog, near Montreal, who ran the 10km in 46 minutes, pushing his young daughter in a stroller, while his wife did the half marathon.
Next I wander over to the massage tent on the beach to have my weary legs worked on, while watching happy finishers jump into the warm ocean water.
Marvia, my adept massage therapist, was totally worth the 75-minute wait in line. I practically skip back to my all-inclusive resort, Beaches Negril, less than five-minutes down the beach and sit down beside the pool to an enormous breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast with marmalade, fried plantain and hearty Jamaican callaloo greens, with coffee.
At first glance, Beaches Negril might seem like an odd place to stay without a young family — their services for kids are wildly impressive — but their proximity to Long Bay Beach Park and roster of amenities are first rate.
After breakfast, I stop by my room to change into my bathing suit, sign up for a free snorkelling excursion at the water sports hut, and then sink into a lounge chair on the beach while I wait for the boat to arrive.
I board the vessel with two families travelling together from Ontario, each with two young girls, and our guide Ricardo takes us out to middle shore reef where we hop in the water for a spectacular underwater adventure before heading back to shore, where I rejoin my group of runners.
With only 48 hours left in Jamaica we make the most of our remaining time, and set off to watch the sunset at Rick's Café, a Negril institution where daredevil cliff jumpers draw curious crowds.
The next morning, our driver T'Mamu picks us up for an excursion to YS Falls, a two-hour drive away. We stop in Savanna-la-Mar for sugar cane, and chew the fibrous treats as we head into the lush interior towards the falls.
I'm happy to take in the scenery and play photographer as my thrill-seeking comrades swing from ropes into the deep pools, and even more happy to stop for lunch at the roadside market in Scott's Cove, also referred to as Border because it marks the border between Westmoreland and Saint Elizabeth Parish.
It feels like a true Jamaican experience as vendors swarm our bus with fresh food in hand, vying for our purchases. We take our spread to the nearby beach and feast on deep-fried parrot fish, goat fish and snapper topped with pickled onions and scotch bonnet peppers, balmy (fried Jamaican flatbread), festival (Jamaican doughnut), boiled shrimp and boiled corn.
It's 5 a.m. again and I'm walking towards the powdered-sugar beach for the last time. I've borrowed a yoga mat from the 24-hour fitness centre and lay it on a towel for some sunrise salutations. An hour later I see my friends Pete and Megan and we grab three boards and head out for a stand up paddle, before catching our shuttle to the Montego Bay airport and heading home. As we look back toward the resort, the sun is rising above the palm trees and we smile big, happy smiles, knowing we are blessed to be here.
Registration for the Reggae Marathon, held the first Saturday every December, is $60 for the 10 km, $85 for the half-marathon and $95 for the full marathon and includes admission to the Marathon Expo, the World's Best Pasta Party and the post-race Victory Beach Bash at Long Bay Beach Park. Visit www.reggaemarathon.com.


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In the GNT-T module, even without the syntax add-on, it was already possible to search for articular Participles. In the Search Text window. A good start could be the following search:
[Art] <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 2 Words> [Verb participle ]
The results would look like this:
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If we examine the results, we notive some false hits. In Matthew 2:13, the Article doesn't specify the Participle, as it is in a different case. Such false hits may be avoided, by adding one and the same case to both the Article and the Participle. The search in the Search Text window would then become:
[Art genit] <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 2 Words> [Verb participle genit]
[Art dative] <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 2 Words> [Verb participle dative]
and so on.
If we wanted to search at the same time for every possible case, we could turn to the Greek Construct Window, and have the Article and the Participle AGREE in Gender, Number and Case.
The search would look like this:
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Let's examine the results. Matthew 1:16 looks all right, but Matthew 1:19-20 doesn't. There two wrong results, because the search cannot know that the Article and the Participle don't belong to the same Phrase. In order to make sure of it, we will need the syntax add-on.
Also Matthew 1:20 is not right, because τὸ … γεννηθέν is a Subject substantival Participle. It was found nevertheless, because without the syntax we cannot distinguish between substantival Participles and attributive Participles. Both of them are arthrous Participles, so the presence of the Article cannot be enough to distinguish between them.
So we need to use the syntax add-on. Let's recall first that, according to the Greek syntax module, an attributive Participle is an articular Participle that is Adjunct to a non-verbal Phrase.
Also, the Participle will have an understood Subject, that will be the same as the word that the Participle is attribute to. An example will be needed: in the Phrase ὁ τεχθεὶς βασιλεύς, the Verb τεχθεὶς has an implied Subject. Who has been born? The answer is βασιλεύς.
In the syntax, the implied Subject of such Participles is a Null Subject, that has an Antecedent. The Antecedent is βασιλεύς. In the syntax tree, the implied Subject is marked as 01, and the correlative number 1 goes with its Antecedent βασιλεύς.
Both 01 and 1 can be found in a search for Antecedents.
With this in mind, we will build the search as follows:
- Open a new Search Text, choose GNT-T as search text, and choose to search for Words (not Verses) within every Chapter or Book (not Verse, etc)
- Open a new Greek Construct (Command-2), that will be automatically linked to the Search Text
- In the Greek Construct window, drag the Clause element and drop it into the first column
- When prompted, choose Dependent and Adjunct, then click OK or press Return
- Drag the element Antecedent and drop it into the first column of the Adjun. DEPENDENT Clause
- Drag the element SUBJECT and drop it into the first column of the same Clause, below the element ANTECEDENT
- Drag the Verb element and drop it into the second column of the Adjun. DEPENDENT Clause
- When prompted, choose Mood: participle. If you want to find a specific Case, select it. Otherwise, participle will be enough. Then click OK or press Return
- We need to leave the box "Search both directions" unchecked, as the Subject must come before the participle.
- Press Return, or click on the search button.
The results will look like this:
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This finds the attributive participles.
The search may be narrowed down by clicking on the element VERB participle and adding gender, number and case.
[As a provisional note, Matthew 1:23 show among the results, because μεθερμηνευόμενον has an antecedent, even if it shouldn't. It will be removed in the next update to the syntax]
Edited by Marco V. Fabbri, 11 November 2011 - 09:21 AM.
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I love the picture of the diminutive mayor, standing in a life-size floor plan of the imagined apartment, alongside the Commissioner of City Planning, Amanda Burden, who has this ineffable we-know-what's-good-for-the-little-people look on her face.
Who is Amanda Burden?
Born Amanda Jay Mortimer, she is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley (1915–1978) and her first husband, Stanley Grafton Mortimer, Jr. (1913–1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune. She is a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, and a granddaughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, the "Father of American Neurosurgery" and Pulitzer Prize winning author.... In 1947, her mother married William S. Paley, the son of a successful immigrant entrepreneur who built a family acquisition into CBS. Her stepmother, Kathleen Mortimer (born 1917), was a daughter of railroad heir and United States ambassador Averell Harriman.Wow. So... that's how you get a look like that for your face as you let people know about how micro a living space can properly be. I thought she looked really elite, but I was still floored by that bio.
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Sorry y'all, but I had to show that to someone within 7 days otherwise Mr. Potatohead's mouth was going to come out of my screen and eat me.
WingedWeasel wrote: »I have the other recent astrotrain and while I find his wingtip shoes hilarious I could go for a new one
I'm gonna need to find details on that Astrotrain as soon as they surface. I wasn't huge on the TR/Legends Astrotrain because it was literally just a lazy recolor of Sentinel Prime, but if it's going to be its own thing this time around I need to see what it will be. DX-9 is probably still my favorite take on Astrotrain so far, even if it does take like 20 minutes and absolutely requires the manual to successfully transform.
tfwiki currently lists a "Vintage G1" Astrotrain coming out in 2020 as a Wal-Mart Exclusive figure. I don't know if that's referring to the same thing, but that also sounds interesting.
Ok, so to cleanse the thread I saw the rumor of a Leader Class Astrotrain for the Siege line as well as Apeface!!! I'm so hoping for Apeface (and hopefully Snapdragon). If that happens, man 2019 is going to be insanely expensive for me.
Vintage G1 is a G1 reissue line, isn't it? Like the old 80's toys.
Forever Zefiro wrote: »Ok, so to cleanse the thread I saw the rumor of a Leader Class Astrotrain for the Siege line as well as Apeface!!! I'm so hoping for Apeface (and hopefully Snapdragon). If that happens, man 2019 is going to be insanely expensive for me.
A proper Apeface and Snapdragon are my dream. I love the little 3rd party dudes I have from UT, but I want some big guys, and I'm not too fond of KFC's offeringsthe red egg face is from Berserk
Looks like Vintage G1 figures of some other ones already exist at Wal-Mart.
If Hot Rod and this freak show(edit: oh god) are anything to go by, we're probably looking at the return of ol' stumpy.
Gamestop is having a sale, and Ectotron is $37.49 right now
Is TFSource safe to buy from? I seem to recall reading something in the last couple of months that cast them in a bad light - either some security leak, or shady business practices, or something - but I can't remember what it is. Am I making this up? Are they on the up-and-up?
MakeToys Guardia will apparently be re-released at the end of the year, and I am very excited about that because that's my white whale of 3rd party toys. I'd rather get it from BBTS, because I feel like that's the biggest, most reliable, most reputable online toy store (and because I've bought from them a bunch of times with no issues), but TFSource has the set for $30 less.
Well... The mad scramble is beginning.


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Five Things I've Learned On The Ground In Portugal
Portugal is a country that I've always enjoyed, full of warm, welcoming people, excellent wine, and great weather.
I came to Porto, the country's second largest city of some 1.5 million, to get a sense of what's been happening since the eurocalypse.
1. Capitulation of hope
Excluding the city's still-bustling tourist areas, it's very quiet around the city.
Street-level retail shops and restaurants are either devoid of customers or have been vacated. On many blocks I've seen more "for lease" signs than operating businesses.
Officially, the unemployment rate is 15.2% in Portugal, and the economy will contract 3% this year… yet the clear lack of economic activity suggests the real figures are much greater.
Without doubt, reality has set in. Locals have capitulated 'hope' that the good times will magically re-appear and have adjusted their habits accordingly.
2. Austerity: too little, too late
For the last several years, national government spending has contributed nearly 40% of Portugal's GDP. In Europe, this has only been bested by (you guessed it) Greece and Ireland.
Including local and provincial governments, in fact, total government expenditure here surpasses 50% of GDP. It's insane.
Under the terms of their bail-out last year, they've been forced to cut back. Sort of.
The government recently tried reforming public worker benefits, for example. But Portugal's Constitutional Court overturned the move, ruling that cutting public workers' Christmas bonuses and generous paid holidays is unconstitutional.
They've also made attempts at overhauling the broken pension system. But then the president himself, Mr. Anibal Cavaco Silva, began complaining about his own pension being trimmed.
You really can't make this stuff up.
All the national and local governments have really been able to do is cut small, rounding-error line items from the budget… landscaping, trash collection, things like that.
You can see the results on the streets– the grass is growing knee-high in public areas away from Porto's main tourist spots.
But none of this is going to make a dent in the budget. 'Austerity' here is truly meaningless, and these guys are going to slide right back into insolvency. I'd expect Portugal's 10-year yield (currently 10.3%) to rise.
3. Absurdly cheap.
Portugal is now one of the cheapest civilized places in the world to live. As part of the contraction, both asset prices and many retail prices in Portugal have dropped substantially.
The middle/upper-middle class segments of the real estate market have gone no-bid, and investment property owners with mortgages to service are getting desperate.
To give you an idea, I'm renting a spacious 3-bedroom, 2000 square foot luxury apartment in a new(ish) development that was completed during the real estate boom a few years ago. It's costing me a whopping $60/night.
The complex is a ghost town. I've seen four human beings in as many days, and as I stand on the terrace surveying the other units, most of what I see is vacant.
Property owners I've spoken to say that they don't want to rent to locals under a long-term lease because the locals can't pay. And when they stop paying, the government makes eviction very difficult.
This makes their market of potential lessees quite small, hence cheap prices.
4. Gold businesses are doing well
All over town you can see these new 'cash for gold' type franchises being set up. It's crazy, you'll even see two or three of them on the same block across the street from one another. It's like Starbucks.
Many of them are doing brisk business as locals look to raise spare cash. And the businesses are only buying gold, not selling.
5. Lack of productive youth
There is a noticeable, disproportionate lack of young people between the ages of 15 to 35 or so.
It seems that much of Portugal's youth is heading to greener pastures, most notably to Brazil where they can easily obtain residency, find a job, and integrate into society… or to frontier markets like Angola (a former colony with a booming resource economy).
No doubt, people with skills and courage are getting the hell out.


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Army Wants 120mm Mortar Systems That Can Fire Out to 12 Miles
The U.S. Army wants to replace its current mounted and towed 120mm mortars with new systems that will shoot farther and offer protection for mounted crews.Army officials from Product Manager Precision Fires and Mortars and Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems began market surveys in August to find defense firms capable of producing a 120mm Mortar Future Indirect Fire Turret by 2021 and a 120mm Extended Range Mortar system by 2026, according to two Aug. 2 solicitations.The new 120mm Mortar Future Indirect Fire Turret, or FIFT, "is a 120mm turret that provides protection from enemy counter battery systems and insulates soldiers from the effects of both noise and blast overpressure," the FIFT solicitation states. "This turret shall be capable of firing heavier projectiles at a greater range than the current Battalion Mortar System (BMS) or Recoil Mortar System-Light (RMS-L)."As an objective requirement, the Army wants the new turret system to shoot out to 20,000 meters, or 12.4 miles, according to the FIFT solicitation.....The Army also wants the FIFT to have more automation so the "physical burden on crew is reduced, while supporting a high rate-of-fire capability," according to the solicitation. In loading and firing, the Army wants a system where "ammo transitions from stowage through the firing event without human contact."At a minimum, the system should have a maximum rate of fire, or MROF, of 16 rounds per minute for one minute followed by a sustained rate of fire, or SROF, of 6 rounds per minute "indefinitely," the solicitation states. Ideally, the Army wants a system capable of "being fired at the MROF of 24 rounds per minute for 2 minutes and maintain a SROF of 12 rounds per minute indefinitely."The FIFT may be manned or unmanned and designed to be compatible with the Stryker, Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, and Next-Generation Combat Vehicle.
Both the Army and the Marine Corps have expressed interest in mortar systems that shoot farther. Earlier this year, the Corps began searching for a company capable of producing the Advanced Capability Extended Range Mortar, or ACERM -- a mortar round compatible with existing Marine and Army M252 81mm mortar systems that offers an effective range of up to 20,000 meters as well.
The US Arm The Army is alway assigns mortars to the infantry. the primary mortar at the battalion level is the 120mm and the 81mm mortar at company level. Extending the range of mortars is good but we cant rely on artillery. I would prefer a 105mm solution but I also like the Russian solution of 160mm and 240mm mortars that are wheeled so they can be towed or airlifted.
The artillery operate the towed 105's /M119. They are part of support FA battalions and have been used in Afghanistan. I would like to see more HIMARS/MRLS fire units. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18550/us-army-eyes-replacing-its-105mm-and-155mm-towed-howitzers-with-one-new-cannon
I think the 25 pounder QF would fit the bill.
Let's go with the Enfields while we're at it!
What he said.Inf Mortars - Support a BnArty Mortars - Support a BdeWho you give them to should be dependent on what effect you want to achieve.
Infantry--60>81mm mortarsArtillery-- 120mm towed or SP


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The Freak Fandango Orchestra (3 Albums, 22 Tracks)
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- Xavi (bass)
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- Armin (Trumpet)
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The Freak Fandango Orchestra is a multi-ethnic band from Barcelona (Spain). The band exists since 2006 and is performing live since 2007. You can see them a lot around Barcelona but they also play at international venues, like for example at the New York Gypsy Festival 2011.
Their music is a explosive mixture of folk, polka, gypsy music from the Balkans and punk-rock. The band is composed by musicians with lots of different instruments (guitar, bass, drums, violin, saxophone, trumpet, accordion and percussion). They are influenced by artists like "Emir Kusturica And The No Smoking Orchestra", "Goran Bregović" and "Gogol Bordello".
In 2009 they published their first EP "Love, Death And A Drunken Monkey" and their second EP "Tales Of A Dead Fish" in 2011. All their song our under Creative Commons License.
The Freak Fandango Orchestra has arrived to town, so move your ass, drink some beer, sing, dance, jump... and enjoy their punky-folky songs and crazy lyrics!!!


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LOCATION: Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
DEPARTMENT: CSS- Patient Transport
WORK SCHEDULE: Day/Evenings
WORK TYPE: Part Time
Performs many non-clinical tasks required to deliver care, including but not limited to, Inventory Control (parring, put-away), Linen Inventory Management and Distribution, Patient Care Equipment Cleaning and Distribution, and Patient Transport. Coordinates functions within base department or an assigned clinical area. Delivers high level of customer service to co-workers, patients and the clinical staff. Works in a self-directed manner to prioritize job functions.
Directly reports to the Care Support Services Coordinator and/or Logistics Supervisor.
Responsible for ensuring the very best patient/family experience by optimizing all customer interactions. Fosters a positive work environment through mutual support and cooperation and adheres to GHS and unit specific Service Standards. Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of the Geisinger System in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction.
Demonstrates excellent customer service skills.
Demonstrates good interpersonal skills, which include courteous, tactful, respectful and non-aggressive behavior.
Demonstrates ability to multi-task, work independently and prioritize.
Demonstrates ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Demonstrates excellent organizational skills.
Demonstrates problem-solving skills and flexibility.
Demonstrates ability to read, perform arithmetic calculations, follow oral and written instructions, and communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Demonstrates proficiency in the English language.
Demonstrates good interpersonal skills, which include courteous, tactful, respectful and non-aggressive behavior.
Demonstrates basic computer skills, basic navigation in a Windows environment, use of passwords and security, and understands policy on Internet usage. Demonstrates ability to use or ability to learn how to use an internet browser, spreadsheet and word processing software. Demonstrates the ability to compose, send, and read emails, understands email functionality and conventions related to replying.
Demonstrates a reasonable comfort level with technology and associated devices.
Demonstrates and uses proper body mechanics when lifting and transferring items or patients.
High School diploma or equivalent required. Minimum one-year inventory, clerical or patient transport experience preferred.
Minimum six months on the job to learn to identify medical and surgical supplies and equipment and become familiar with all duties required.
Successful completion of role orientation and competencies. Proficiency in areas of Inventory Control (parring, put-away), Linen Inventory Management and Distribution, Patient Care Equipment Cleaning and Distribution, and Patient Transport required within 12 months of hire. Continuing in-services and education programs required.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment.
Requires the ability to lift up to 70lbs. Lifting to waist level and above is required. Requires pushing and pulling of carts with weights ranging from 100lbs to 500lbs combined. Requires transferring patients from bed to wheelchair or litter. Requires lifting of equipment up to 20 pounds frequently and up to 50 pounds occasionally. Frequent stooping, reaching, bending, handling, talking, depth perception, and acuity in the daily performance of duties
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER: (GWV), located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is an acute care hospital that is licensed for 274 beds, and houses the only Level II Trauma center in Luzerne County. The campus includes the Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center, The Richard and Marion Pearsall Heart Hospital, the Janet Weis Children's Hospital Pediatric Unit, a transplant program and the Brain & Spine Tumor Institute. Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre is GWV's ambulatory campus.
About Geisinger
One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
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'God Made a Farmer' Super Bowl Ad for Ram Trucks a Top Favorite
An ad created by Chrysler that uses conservative Christian and celebrated broadcaster Paul Harvey's 1978 "God Made a Farmer" tribute has emerged as a favorite among Super Bowl viewers.
"And on the 8th day God looked down on His planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker!' So, God made a farmer," begins Harvey's remarks that play over Chrysler's dramatic Super Bowl commercial. "God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer."
The "Farmer" ad played during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVII in which the Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers 34-31. The commercial drew praise Sunday night and has become one of the most-talked about ads among viewers, including many Christians who took to Twitter to share their reactions.
"Legit commercial, Dodge. Well done. Classy. Unique. Refreshing," wrote spoken word poet Jefferson Bethke.
"Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial 'Farmer'...best commercial – and nobody was half-dressed," commented LifeWay Research president and missologist Ed Stetzer.
"What Dodge/RAM Executive greenlit that Paul Harvey 'God Made a Farmer' ad? I want to know. He deserves America's undying gratitude," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas.
While Chrysler's use of dramatic montages of farmers at work juxtaposed with Harvey's powerful and well-timed remarks were appreciated, others also felt Chrysler succeeded in simply drawing interest to its Dodge Trucks with the two-minute commercial.
"This is one of the best commercials I've ever seen. Not only does it pay homage to the men and women [whose] labor was the basis of the American heritage, but it serves it's purpose to draw in the consumer. It makes you want to buy a Dodge; it makes you want to be a farmer. It makes you want to be an American farmer," commented another viewer of the Super Bowl ad on YouTube.
Jason Cummings, Chair for the Department of Leadership and Military Science in the U.K., shares in a post on Christian pastor Ron Edmonson's blog that he found that Dodge's "Farmer" commercial affirmed "virtuous characteristics" that "resonate with our souls," and listed among them disciplined work ethic, compassion and character.
"Americans respect farmers, and the farmer was extolled for his virtuous characteristics," Cummings writes.
Watch Chrysler's Dodge Ram Super Bowl Commercial:
Chrysler's "Farmer" ad is based on and very similar to a 2011 video by Farm.com made in support of farmers "both past and present who have endured to provide our safe, affordable and abundant food," the organization has shared. It also noted that Harvey delivered his "God Made a Farmer" tribute in 1978 at the annual National Future Farmers of America Convention.
Harvey, a popular and respected radio broadcaster for ABC Radio Networks, was also a conservative Christian who worshipped at a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Phoenix, Ariz., and was reportedly drawn to the desert, while his wife was fond of the city. According to the Adventist News Network, the iconic broadcaster was often seen wearing a cowboy hat and boots to church services. Harvey, who passed away in 2009, reportedly was also a good friend of the Rev. Billy Graham.
While Chrysler Group LLC has won applause for its ad, the automaker operates under Italy's Fiat S.p.A. and some of its Ram Trucks are assembled in Mexico, which some viewers found troubling in light of the "Farmers" commercial's all American imagery. However, Farms.com has made it known that Chrysler has its full support, as the "Farmer" Super Bowl ad actually benefits America's farmers.
"Farms.com is pleased to support Ram Trucks and the Super Bowl commercial acknowledges the hard work and importance of farmers and agriculture. Ram Trucks is supporting Future Farmers of America when this video is viewed," the organization has stated on its website.
In addition, Chrysler's Ram brand has declared 2013 "the year of the farmer" and is encouraging consumers to help it raise $1 million for the FFA as well as for food and education programs.
Watch the original "Farmers Tribute: So God Made A Farmer" from Farms.com:


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Second Chugiak clerk charged with theft from school
A former Chugiak High supply clerk accused of stealing more than $74,000 over a four-year period from the school was arraigned on charges of theft, scheme to defraud and falsifying business records in Palmer District Court on Friday, Nov. 18. All three charges are felonies.
According to charging documents in the case, Brenda Burge, 54, of Wasilla, pilfered $74,897 in cash while handling students' activities and attendance fees.
Burge's bail was set at $15,000 with no third-party custodian. A warrant for her arrest was issued Nov. 15, and she was arrested on Thursday, Nov. 17 in Wasilla. As of Monday, Nov. 21, she was no longer in custody.
Prosecutors said Burge's request for a public defender was denied.
Burge's alleged embezzlement first came to light in February, when attendance secretary Patty Zmuda informed Chugiak principal Rick Volk that there was money missing from the attendance area at the school. Volk told school resource officer Wendi Shackelford, and an investigation began into the disappearance of $85 that a female student had paid for a class she ended up not taking.
According to the indictment (/Burge Complaint.pdf), after Volk contacted the Anchorage School District accounting office, it was discovered the district had neither the money nor the receipt for the student's $85 fee. The documents say Volk was told at that time by the district that Chugiak didn't turn in much cash, "which he thought was odd."
According to the indictment, when police and school officials began digging into the school's receipts, Burge's alleged embezzlement began to become clear.
Rather than depositing the cash — typically small amounts less than $500 — with ASD, Burge allegedly pocketed much of the money, then simply failed to turn receipts over to the district. Since the district had no record of the money, Burge's actions went unnoticed.
"She estimated that she confiscated 70 percent of the cash," said Anchorage Police spokesman Lt. Dave Parker.
The charging documents say Burge claimed she had kept the receipts that were supposed to go to the district, but that many burned in a house fire. She allegedly told investigators she first started taking money after incurring medical bills from an on-the-job injury, and that she had intended to pay the money back. She claimed she was under financial pressure, and first took money to pay for gas to get to work.
Burge was fired shortly after the allegations came to light. Her last day at the school was March 15, when she was escorted off Chugiak property.
At the same time Burge's thefts were uncovered, a second Chugiak employee, Gayle White, was also discovered to have been embezzling money from the school. White was also fired shortly after her thefts were uncovered. According to court records, White pled guilty to one count of theft in the second degree (theft of $500-$24,999) last month and was given a three-year suspended sentence.
Parker said the lengthy period between the discovery of Burge's alleged embezzlement and her arrest was because it took so long to detail all of her thefts, which he said occurred in small amounts over a long period of time.
"There were literally hundreds of receipts that they had to compare," he said.
On Nov. 9, a police forensics report determined that the difference between the cash Chugiak received and that which was delivered to ASD was $13,607 in school year 2007-08, $22,567 in '08-09, $19,443 in '09-10 and $19,279 in '10-11.
Parker said the ASD has since changed its accounting procedures to ensure such thefts can't happen in the future.
If she remains in custody, prosecutors said Burge's next court date will be Nov. 22 in Anchorage; if she's out of custody, that hearing will be on Nov. 29.
Contact Matt Tunseth at 694-2727 or [email protected]


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The myths
1) Research and development (R&D) means there is a brand new product or process at the end of the project – WRONG
2) Research and Development tax relief is only available for successful projects – WRONG
The truth
If your company has been engaged in a project that seeks to achieve an advance in science or technology, it is carrying out R&D.
For most SMEs, advances are in technology. An improvement to an existing product or process may be sufficient for a claim.
Is it worth it?
Yes, it's free money! The relief for SMEs is currently 230%. That means that for every £1 of qualifying expenditure your company makes, it receives an additional £1.30 of relief.
Every £1 spent yields a deduction of £2.30 against taxable profits.
And loss-making companies can claim a repayable tax credit calculated at 14.5%.
For example, a company has a trading loss of £100,000 and qualifying R&D expenditure of £35,000. The surrenderable loss is the lower of £100,000 and £35,000 x 230% = £80,500.
The tax credit will therefore be 14.5% x £80,500 equals £11,672.
What is needed for a successful claim?
What are the requirements?
- There has to be a project focused on the issue to be resolved
- There has to be an intention to achieve an advance in science or technology
- The project must relate to the company's trade – an existing one or one it intends to start based on the results of the R&D
- The company has to explain how its project sought to overcome the uncertainty around the advance it wants to achieve
- The issue has to be one that cannot be easily overcome by a professional working in that field
- The process, product or service can still be an advance if it has been developed by another company but isn't publicly known or available. For instance, there are many companies currently working on both electric cars and driverless cars. They will each be claiming R&D tax relief
- The project can research or develop a new process, product or service, or improve an existing one
SME R&D Relief
A company is defined as a SME if:
- It has less than 500 members of staff
- It has a turnover of under €100m or a balance sheet total under €86m
Qualifying expenditure
- Staff costs
- Software
- Consumable or transformable items
- Contracted out R&D costs (65%)
- Externally provided workers (65%)
There are also R&D allowances which allow for full relief for qualifying capital expenditure
Time limit – Two years from the end of an accounting period, in line with the corporation tax return deadline.


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Potato salad gets perked up with herbs, vegetables and a terrific dressing. Serve the salad warm or at room temperature.
- Yield
- Makes 10 servings
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons minced shallots
- 4 anchovies, minced
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh basil
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh marjoram
- 8 ounces green beans, trimmed
- 8 ounces yellow wax beans, trimmed
- 2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, unpeeled, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 cup green olives, pitted, halved
- 1/2 cup Niçois olives,* pitted, halved
- 1/4 cup drained capers
- Mix olive oil, white wine vinegar, minced shallots and minced anchovies in medium glass bowl. Whisk in 1 teaspoon each of parsley, basil and marjoram. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper. Cook all beans in large saucepan of boiling salted water until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Drain. Rinse under cold water; pat dry. (Dressing and beans can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover separately and refrigerate. Let beans stand 2 hours at room temperature before continuing.) Steam potatoes until just tender, about 12 minutes. Transfer to large bowl. Heat dressing in microwave just until warm, about 30 seconds. Pour half of warm dressing over potatoes and toss to coat. Mound warm potatoes in center of platter. Toss beans and remaining dressing in same bowl. Arrange beans around potatoes. Sprinkle with onion, all olives, capers and remaining herbs. Serve warm or at room temperature.
- *Small brine-cured black olives, available at Italian markets, specialty foods stores and some supermarkets.


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Sources have told NBC news that the shooting at the Mexico border near Naco, Ariz., that killed border patrol agent Nicolas Ivie and wounded two others involved friendly fire. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
Updated at 7:30 p.m. ET: Investigators are preparing to announce that the death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in Arizona earlier this week was the result of friendly fire -- accidental gunfire from another agent who responded to the same scene, state and federal officials told NBC News on Friday.
The conclusion is based on an analysis of the ballistics, the lack of evidence of other criminals in the area at the time, and other factors, the sources said.
The FBI released a statement later on Friday confirming that preliminary evidence showed friendly fire was to blame in the shootings.
"While it is important to emphasize that the FBI's investigation is actively continuing, there are strong preliminary indications that the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and the injury to a second agent was the result of an accidental shooting incident involving only the agents," said James L. Turgal Jr., FBI spokesman, in a statement to NBC News. "At the appropriate time further information will be provided, but while the investigation continues it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this time."
The incident involving Ivie and two other agents occurred Tuesday in a rugged area about five miles north of the US-Mexico border near Bisbee, Ariz. The agents had responded to an alarm from a sensor that tracks illegal movement along the border.
Gary M. Williams / AP
Christy Ivie, center, wife of Nicholas Ivie, holds back tears as she is surrounded by her father, Tracy Morris, and mother, DeAnn Morris, left, and her sister, Jan Cloward, and brother, Travis Morris, right, during a news conference on Tuesday.
Ivie was killed. A second agent was wounded and was released from the hospital after undergoing surgery. The third agent was unharmed.
State and federal officials said immediately after the incident that the shootings were committed by armed criminals. And since then, Mexican authorities have said they arrested two men in Agua Prieta, northern Sonora state, a few miles from where the shooting occurred.
Pete Williams is NBC News' chief justice correspondent.
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Jail Video Visits Are No Substitute for the Real Thing
From Truth Out/By Maya Schenwar
As the word "reform" swirls around current conversations about the criminal legal system, many proposed ideas involve new technologies. The techier, the assumption goes, the better! Data-driven "predictive policing" is branded as a route to figuring out where crime is going to happen. (In reality, such tactics involve using previous arrest data to increasingly target neighborhoods of color.) "Risk assessment tools" are sold as key to determining who can safely be paroled – but depending on how they're used, they may deepen the racist disparities they supposedly counter. Electronic monitoring is advertised as a path toward reducing incarceration, but monitors are actually enlarging the bounds of who is caught inside the carceral system.
All the while, these technological "solutions" are padding the pockets of private companies – at the expense of people of color and the poor.
Video visitation is one such shiny-yet-insidious technology, which has rapidly spread over the past couple of years: More than 500 jails and prisons around the country are now experimenting with it. On the one hand, for people incarcerated far away from their loved ones, video visits could be a welcome channel of communication, allowing them to "meet" face-to-face without requiring long, expensive journeys. The "visits" also offer young children, the elderly and people with disabilities – who might be less able to travel – the opportunity for some face time.
Still, a video visit is no real substitute for an in-person visit, in any universe. However, as a recent report by Prison Policy Initiative documents, the introduction of video visitation often forcibly replaces in-person visits, in order to maximize profits for the private companies that provide the technology. Family and friends, most of whom don't have much money, are then compelled to pay for the (heftily priced) video calls if they want to see their loved ones' faces. Add to this the fact that many poor families don't have access to the equipment necessary to receive a video call – and so, for some, video visitation simply spells the end of visits. (more…)


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Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a very grumpy Janeane complained about coffee, bitched about Twitter, grumbled about male footwear and generally sounded like a crotchety old lady. If only she'd screamed, "Get off my lawn!" Instead, she sniped, "I was born in the 1920s." Clip mashup, left.
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by Margaret Cooney, whale campaigner at the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Washington, D.C.
—Our thanks to IFAW and the author for permission to republish this report, which first appeared on their site on April 8, 2014.
Whales face more challenges than ever before; commercial whaling, ship strikes, and entanglement, are the common culprits, and as our oceans become increasingly crowded, and therefore increasingly noisier, ocean noise pollution is joining those ranks.
Ocean noise pollution, in its three main forms of ship noise, oil and gas exploration, and military sonar, has been known to drive whales and other marine mammals from their breeding and feeding grounds, and to deafen or even kill.
For people, even relatively low-level noise can cause psychological and physical stress, adversely affecting blood pressure, heart rate and cardiac output. But people can usually move away from noise; for marine mammals, escape is often impossible.
In recent years there has been a great deal of research on the harmful impacts of underwater noise on marine mammals. However, there is still a huge amount of uncertainty. New research continues to reveal effects even from noise sources that had not been considered harmful in the past. Like people, animals may suffer a great deal due to noise but without showing any immediate effects.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recently been reviewing all the research on the impacts of noise on marine mammal hearing in order to try and specify levels at which harmful effects are likely to occur.
This is an important process because it will guide regulators who have to make decisions on whether to allow loud sounds to be generated underwater, such as military sonar for navy testing and training activities or seismic surveys for oil and gas exploration.
IFAW, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a number of other environmental groups, recently submitted comments on the draft criteria proposed by NOAA. Setting such criteria is a complex, technical process that has to take into account the considerable uncertainty and lack of information.
Our recommendations list a number of technical issues that we believe need to be accounted for in order to make the criteria adequately precautionary to protect animals from direct injuries caused by underwater noise.
NRDC, IFAW, and the aforementioned coalition of NGOs worked together with members of Congress, to highlight the importance of using the precautionary principle when NOAA is drafting its final guidelines. The technical complexity and difficulties in determining which sounds at what levels will cause serious harm are not an excuse to inadequately address the problem.
The solution is actually very simple and achievable—make less noise.
IFAW's efforts have been focused on reducing noise at the source through our work with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on shipping noise, through our collaborations with others in the NGO community and with industry on mitigating the sound effects of offshore energy development, and through working with champions in the government to make sure strong regulations are in place for keeping the volume down on ocean noise activities, such as military sonar.
We will be closely monitoring NOAA's progress as they continue to draft these acoustic guidelines, helping to make sure that they use the best available science, and when there is none available, to err on the side of precaution. With the right technology and will power we can make our oceans quieter, thereby relieving whales and other marine life from the cacophony of sounds that pervade their environment.
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Building muscle is a complex process and is often a balance between anabolism, the buildup of protein, and catabolism, the breakdown or loss of tissue. For the strength athlete, the key to getting stronger is to promote anabolism and simultaneously prevent catabolism. Because your body's protein balance is in a constant state of flux, taking in additional protein is one way to help the body build more muscle mass and strength.
Researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, reported in the journal Nutrition that certain combinations of amino acids may prevent the breakdown of muscle tissue. Researchers T. P. Stein and colleagues administered either three nonessential amino acids (glycine, serine and alanine) or three branched-chain aminos (leucine, isoleucine and valine) to 19 healthy subjects ages 22-37 during six days of restricted bed rest. When they measured urinary excretion of nitrogen and 3-methylhistidine (a biochemical gauge of muscle breakdown), nitrogen retention was greater for the BCAA group.
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It was a high-risk choice for the same reason many speakers fear Q&A: It's that time in a speaking engagement when anything can happen. Fortunately for the audience in the theater and watching on TV, anything did happen--and Burnett was a master at handling the unexpected. Here's how she explains the genesis of putting the Q&A session at the top of her hour-long show:
"Our executive producer, Bob Banner, bless his heart, said, 'Carol, I think you should go out and be yourself at the beginning of the show, before you start putting on the fake body suits and the wigs and blacking out your teeth, you know,' I said, 'What would I do? I can't tell jokes--I couldn't tell a joke to save my soul,' and he said, 'Well, you should do questions and answers'."There are scores of these question sessions from The Carol Burnett Show, which ran for more than a decade. I have two short compilations below for you to watch of Burnett, who will receive the Mark Twain Prize for Humor later this year, being interviewed about the Q&A sessions and fielding questions. You'll see there's a mix of high humor, along with getting the audience members onto the stage, bringing out backstage crew, and answering specific and practical questions about which the audience is curious. What can you learn from this famous speaker?
- Consider putting questions at the start of your session: You might want to put the questions at the start to let the audience get familiar with you--and it's also a good tactic if you have an angry audience or contentious issue to discuss, or you just want to get a handle on who's in the room and what they're thinking about. No live audience shows up without questions. Getting them out in the air early might be the smartest thing you'll ever do as a speaker.
- Go out and be yourself: Burnett's producer had the right idea in asking her to "be yourself" with the audience before she began pretending to be someone else in the acting portions of the show. By letting the audience have direct access to her as she was, engagement with the show was high, both in the hall and in viewers' living rooms. If you look at Q&A as a time when you're pressured to look smart or glib or polished, take the remedial action of watching Burnett gain credibility and fervent fans merely by being herself. It's about being authentic as a speaker.
- Inject some humor into your answers: I'll turn to Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for U.S. President Ronald Reagan, to explain what humor does for the speaker. Here, she was doling out advice to another presidential candidate, but the points work for us all: The audience member who is "laughing is half yours, and just received a line he can repeat next weekend over a beer at the barbecue or online at Starbucks....If you make us laugh we spread your line for free....When two people meet, as they come to know each other as neighbors or colleagues, one of the great easers, one of the great ways of making a simple small human connection is: shared laughter. We are a political nation. We talk politics. So fill that area with humor: sly humor, teasing humor, humor that speaks a great truth or makes a sharp point." A bonus for any speaker: Humor will relax you as well as put the audience at ease
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As can be seen in the tour, the 14-year-old ship is chock full of cozy spaces such as the top-of-the-ship Crow's Nest observation lounge and the centrally located Explorer's Lounge. It's also home to multiple eateries, a spa and a showroom that hosts a variety of stage productions.
Measuring about 82,000 tons, the four ships of Holland America's Vista Class were named after the four points of the compass. The 2003-built Oosterdam ("oost," which rhymes with "toast", means "east" in Dutch) followed the 2002-built Zuiderdam ("south"), 2004-built Westerdam and 2006-built Noordam ("north").
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Retired Gen. James Cartwright Target in Leak Probe, Source Says
Gen. James Cartwright retired from the Marine Corps in August 2011.
June 28, 2013 -- Retired Gen. James Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leak of classified information included in a book by New York Times correspondent David Sanger, a source told ABC News.
Published in mid-2012, Sanger's book, "Confront and Conceal," and a New York Times article adapted from the book, included revelations about the Stuxnet computer virus that was part of a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack to sabotage Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
Cartwright, 63, served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011. Prior to that, the four-star Marine general had been in command of U.S. Strategic Command. He is also a defense consultant for ABC News.
A source familiar with the case confirmed that Cartwright is the target of a year-long Justice Department investigation into the leaks of classified information included in Sanger's book and article.
"He is the target of the investigation," the source said.
The Stuxnet virus was part of a highly classified covert program known as "Olympic Games" that used computer code to successfully target Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities to delay that country's efforts to potentially develop a nuclear weapon.
The revelations sparked outrage among lawmakers and triggered a Justice Department probe into who had been behind the leaks included in the book.
NBC News was first to report that Cartwright was the focus of a criminal probe of the leaks. The source could not confirm the NBC report that Cartwright is specifically being targeted for a leak of information about the Stuxnet computer virus that was first revealed in Sanger's book.
ABC News confirmed that prominent Washington attorney Greg Craig is representing Cartwright in regard to a Justice Department matter, but he declined to comment on the report that Cartwright is the subject of the leaks probe.
Cartwright retired from the Marine Corps in August 2011. He now serves as the Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think-tank.
Government officials referred questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland, which has been conducting the leak investigation of Sanger's book. That office declined to comment.


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The Duke Blue Devils defeated the Miami Hurricanes 74-63 in their ACC Opener on Sunday evening and in the process pushed their season record to 13-0. BDN takes a look the win -
The Nolan Smith Show
Just when the Blue Devils needed a boost, Duke senior Nolan Smith scored 13 straight points in the first half. Smith told BDN that he was getting used to the point guard position and that comfort made him confident on the offensive end. Smith led the Blue Devils with 28 points to go with 5 rebounds and a team high 4 assists. His 28 points were a season high, his 4 threes were a season high as well.
A new identity, sort of ...
When Duke came into the 2010-11 season they were trained and expecting to run. With Kyrie Irving's injury, Duke has now become more of a half court team and will rely on the old stand by, defense. Duke played good defense on the Miami guards and they are some of the best they'll face in conference this season. A telling statistic is that Duke scored 2 points on the fast break, but at least four of those breaks were mishandled resulting in turnovers. Duke scored just 2 points off turnovers as well.
Kelly adds a spark off the bench
Ryan Kelly played 25 minutes versus Miami and he responded with two key follow up buckets which revved up the crowd. Mind you, the crowd was minus cheerleaders and the Blue Devil Mascot and many students are just coming in, so Duke needed the lift. Kelly ended the contest with 8 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks. Duke had 8 blocks as a team.
The Plums
Mason Plumlee led Duke is rebounding with 10 and he swatted 4 shots back, but the sophomore struggled a bit on the offensive end. His brother Miles was praised by Krzyzewski during the post game for knocking down two free throws after a hard foul. Miles added 6 rebounds to his 6 points and had the other Duke blocked shot.
Kyrie Irving update
Irving returned to campus today and had a new cast put on upon arrival. He will have his injury evaluated on Wednesday and so far, surgery is not planned which is a good sign. However, it is clear that the Blue Devils are playing and planning strategy as if he will not return. I remain optimistic that we'll see him again this season.
Andre Dawkins spurt
Dawkins can score with the ball and that means he is capable of putting up points quick. After a slow start, Dawkins became the third Blue Devil in double figures with 16 and his defense showed up as well where he had a team high 4 steals. Dawkins has scored in double figures in nine of the Blue Devils 13 games. He also has scored two or more three point shots in nine games this season
Duke looks to get Curry untracked
The Blue Devils will try and get Seth Curry untracked after an 0-4 from the field performance. Curry was saddled with 4 fouls for much of the game but was not particularly effective in his 18 minutes of play. Curry made his third straight start.
No worries with Singler
Singler was just 5 of 15 from the field but many of those three point attempts (2-8) rimmed in and out. Singler was an Iron Man tonight joining Nolan Smith in the 40 minute club. Krzyzewski said it would not be unusual to see those kind of minuted from them as the season progressed. Singler has started 123 of 124 games at Duke. Singler moved past Shane Battier and Art Heyman on Dukes all time leading scoring list. Two pretty good guys to pass, huh?
Sidebar -Duke will next face Alabama Birmingham in Cameron on Wednesday evening. Duke was outscored in the paint 38-26. Duke's bench outscored the Canes by a 18-10 margin. Duke shot light out from the free throw stripe going 14 of 15. Duke was outscored in the second half for the first time this season.
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"Saint Gobnait's Day is Feb 11th is still celebrated by the community of Ballyvourney, in County Cork. During a Mass at the well, everyone takes water from it.
Gobnait (Gobnet, Gobhnet, Gobnaid, Gobnata, or Gobnatae), was born in County Clare, Ireland, sometime in the 5th or 6th century. Gobnait is Irish for Abigail ("Brings Joy"). As the patron saint of beekeepers, her name also has been anglicized as Deborah, meaning 'Honey Bee'…
One of the miracles attributed to Saint Gobnait was that she protected a parish by unleashing a swarm of bees… She had a strong relationship with bees and used the properties of honey in the treatment of illness and healing of wounds."
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Mirounga angustirostris
Elephant seals are well named because adult males have large noses that resemble an elephant's trunk. Males begin developing this enlarged nose, or proboscis, at sexual maturity (about three to five years), and it is fully developed by seven to nine years. Adult males may grow to over 13 feet (4 m) in length and weigh up to 4,500 pounds (2,000 kg). The females are much smaller at 10 feet (3 m) in length and 1,500 pounds (600 kg). The northern elephant seal is the second largest seal in the world, after the southern elephant seal. The elephant seal is in the phocid, or true seal, family. It lacks external ear flaps and moves on land by flopping on its belly. The elephant seal has a broad, round face with very large eyes. Pups are born with a black coat which is molted, or shed, at about the time of weaning (28 days), revealing a sleek, silver-gray coat. Within a year, the coat will turn silvery brown.
Northern elephant seals are found in the North Pacific, from Baja California, Mexico to the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands. During the breeding season, they live on beaches on offshore islands and a few remote spots on the mainland. The rest of the year, except for molting periods, elephant seals live well off shore (up to 5,000 miles, or 8,000 km), commonly descending to over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) below the ocean's surface.
Each winter elephant seals arrive at their breeding beaches in Mexico and California. Males are the first to arrive, and they fight each other to establish dominance. During this time, dominant males will often inflate their noses and produce a noise that sounds like a drum to warn lesser males away. Females soon arrive and associate with dominant males. Several days after coming onto the beaches, the females give birth to the pups they have been carrying since last year. Pups weigh 75 pounds (35 kg) or more and are about four feet (1.25 m) in length. The pups nurse for about 28 days, generally gaining about 10 lbs (4.5 kg) a day. At this time females will mate with one or more of the dominant males and then return to sea. For the next two months, weaned pups, called "weaners," remain on rookery beaches, venturing into the water for short periods of time, perfecting their swimming and feeding abilities. Eventually, the pups will learn to feed on squid, fish, and occasionally small sharks.
While living in the open ocean, northern elephant seals spend a lot of time diving, up to two hours at a time. They rarely spend more than four minutes at the surface of the water between dives. It is believed that they eat deep-water, bottom-dwelling marine animals such as ratfish, swell sharks, spiny dogfish, eels, rockfish, and squid. Elephant seals molt each year between April and August, shedding not only their hair but also the upper layer of their skin as well. This is known as catastrophic molt. They return to rookery beaches for a few weeks while molting. Females molt in the spring, juveniles in the early summer, and adult males molt in the late summer.
The northern elephant seal is a conservation success story. After whales became scarce, elephant seals were hunted to the brink of extinction, primarily for their blubber, which was used for lamp oil. By 1910, it is estimated that there were less than 100 elephant seals, all found on Guadalupe Island off Baja California, Mexico. Today, the northern elephant seal population is approximately 150,000, with 124,000 of which in California waters, and is probably near the size it was before they were over-hunted.
At The Marine Mammal Center
Northern elephant seals are the second most common patient at The Marine Mammal Center. From mid-February through the end of June, the Center's rescue and rehabilitation work focuses on orphaned elephant seal and harbor seal pups. Usually these pups are washed away from the rookery during a storm or have not learned how to forage. As a result, the pups are often severely underweight. Weaned elephant seal pups should weigh 250 lbs (113 kg). Our patients are often admitted weighing less than 100 lbs. Elephant seals also suffer from other diseases such as northern elephant seal skin disease, pneumonia, and parasites, such as lungworm. Because most of our elephant seal patients suffer from malnutrition, many are successfully released (60-80%).
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Hey, I just noticed ur avatar pic is Tenma from Monster. I haven't finished it yet but it seems to be one of the more unique animes out there. What did u think of it?
Well, I like your list! We even have same characters for avatar :)
Thank you so much for the donation, you downplayed the amount but it's really helpful to the site, so thank you!! :) everything helps keep the servers up and features in development. Thanks again for your support of AP over the years ^_^
o_O ... I don't think this is about the rules changing too much in this case though, I posted the thread and it says in the first post that whoever claims will update the characters, specifically so there isn't duplication and overlap.
Tyler is also confused because he claimed Occult Academy: http://www.anime-planet.com/forum/character-moderators/56726-ongoing-anime-characters-mark-when-you-add-new-series.html but you've been updating those chars too. From now on we need to only update new season series that we've claimed, otherwise these sorts of things will happen where people get confused. The above thread is important to keep track of for that reason.
Tyler posted about the confusion here, with a question: http://www.anime-planet.com/forum/character-moderators/38762-incorrect-tags-5.html
Please go read the claim thread in the mod section, I claimed HSotD in the very first post.


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